A lot has happened since I last posted about RWDevCon, so I wanted to give you a quick status update.

New Sponsors

First, we are happy to announce 4 new sponsors for the conference:

Savvy Apps (gold sponsor): Savvy Apps is a full-service mobile development company that’s driven by making life better, one app at a time. They have worked on award-winning mobile apps from Homesnap to PBS for iPad to Musx and more.

LaunchKit (silver sponsor): LaunchKit is a suite of tools that makes it easier to build, launch, and manage mobile apps – such as a screenshot builder, review monitor, sales reporter, and app website generator.

WillowTree (silver sponsor): WillowTree is a mobile app development company that excels at bleeding-edge projects. They have worked with clients such as GE, Johnson & Johnson, and the NBA to create the best mobile experience possible.

FastSpring (bronze sponsor): FastSpring is your complete e-commerce solution for payments and subscriptions. It’s used as the back-end for the stores of many popular Mac apps, and is the back end for the store on this site! :]

Topic Poll Tomorrow

As you may know, one of the unique features of RWDevCon is that the attendees choose what topics we give tutorials on!

A while back, we had a brainstorming round of topic ideas from team members & attendees. Tomorrow, we are sending out a poll where attendees can select from the following topics:

3D Touch

Accessibility

Accelerate and other advanced computation topics

Alamofire

Android Development for iOS Developers

Android: Android Wear

App Architecture – Including MVVM and others

Audio Generation / Manipulation / Plugin Writing

Adaptive Layout, Advanced

Auto Layout, Advanced

AVFoundation

Business of App Development, The

CloudKit, Beginning

CloudKit, Advanced

CocoaPods and Carthage

Continuity (Handoff)

Core Animation Layer Masks

Core Audio Tutorial

Core Bluetooth

Core Data vs. CloudKit vs. iCloud vs. Parse vs. FireBase

Core Data: Building a Swift Core Data Stack

Core Data: Device to Online Service Synchronization

Core Data: High Performance

Core Graphics

Core Location

Core Motion

Custom Back-end for an iOS App, Making

Custom Controls in iOS

Custom Presentations and Transitions, Advanced

Functional Programming

GameplayKit

GCD Beginner

GCD Advanced

Godot Engine

HealthKit

iBeacons

Instruments in Xcode

Integrating Data from Workout Apps with Watch / HealthKit

Internationalization

iOS & Bluetooth

iOS & Internet of Things integration

iOS 9 Multitasking

iOS 9 Search APIs

iOS Design Patterns in Swift

iOS Security

Javascript Core

Libraries and Frameworks, Building

LLDB, Beginning

LLDB, Advanced

Keeping App Data In Sync Across iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV

MapKit

Math for Programmers

Metal: for Beginners

Metal: Custom 2D or 3D UI

NSOperation, Advanced

NSPredicate

NSURLSession, Advanced

On-Demand Resources and App Thinning

OS X for iOS Developers

Parse Local Data Store

Reactive Cocoa / RxSwift

React Native

Realm

Regexes : in unit testing, data validation, etc

SceneKit: For Beginners

SpriteKit: For Beginners

SpriteKit: Scene Editor

SpriteKit: Building tvOS Games

Stack Views (UIStackView)

Swift 2: For Beginners

Swift 2: Error Handling

Swift 2: Reference vs. Value Types

Swift 2: Optionals Made Easy

Swift 2: Protocol Oriented Programming in Practice

Swift 2: Interoperability with Objective-C In-Depth

Swift 2: Programming in a Swift (rather than Obj-C) Style

Swift 2: Adopting Swift in a large production app

Test Driven Development

tvOS: Making Native Apps

tvOS: Making TVML Apps

tvOS: Understanding video streaming

tvOS: Reusing code between tvOS & iOS Apps

UIAnimation: For Beginners

UIAnimation: CALayer animations

Unit Testing

Unity

watchOS 2: For Beginners

watchOS 2: For Beginners, Part 2

watchOS: Notifications

watchOS: Glances

watchOS: Connectivity

watchOS: Complications

Xcode for Beginners

Xcode Server

Xcode Tips & Tricks, Advanced

Xcode UI Testing

We’ll be choosing the final topics based on a combination of popular requests and our areas of expertise. We can’t wait to see what ends up winning the poll!

Where To Go From Here?

After we get the poll results, we’ll invite a second round of speakers and build out the schedule. We’ll post the schedule here when it’s ready.

As for tickets, they’re going extremely fast. We already have 199 confirmed attendees (more than last year already), and have just 30 tickets left!

If you want a ticket, be sure to grab your ticket now so you don’t regret missing out later. If you sign up today, you can participate in the tutorial poll tomorrow! :]

The team and I look forward to meeting you at RWDevCon for some tutorials, inspiration, and fun!

Ray is part of a great team - the raywenderlich.com team, a group of over 100 developers and editors from across the world. He and the rest of the team are passionate both about making apps and teaching others the techniques to make them.

When Ray’s not programming, he’s probably playing video games, role playing games, or board games.